Nick Kersten

Modern English football is a 5-club competitive environment, and Tottenham are the 6th club.

Tottenham's trophy drought under Daniel Levy says much more about the changing landscape of English football than it does about any deficiencies in N17.

Let's dig into it.

Others have said it, but those going to the stadium aren’t primarily there for the sport itself. They are there for the communal experience. Fandoms are the secular culture version of religions, and stadiums are the cathedrals.

There are silver linings everywhere, if one knows where to look.

6-3 is a different sort of loss. But to be clear, I expected a loss. I had 3-1 or 4-0.

I walk away surprised we scored 3.

We played the most in form team in the league and with our two starting CBs out. I don’t know how to expect any other result.

Would people have been happier losing 3-0?

When I was a kid, my dad told me, “believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.”

That was before social media and deep fakes.

Probably need a new clause for the wisdom that says “believe less than none of what you see online.”

As I saw elsewhere, “a true 1 out 1.”

I’m in the group you’re calling weird.

For me at least, it is a function of the issues at the center of the discourse being polarized in ways I don’t understand, and then the identities of so many are lined up on those binaries. It’s just not me.

Not besieged, more adrift between combatants.

I’m sure it is the confirmation bias talking, but what I would love as a Spurs fan is if our schedule didn’t somehow always coincide with the best form of the bottom half sides.

Unless it’s really the case that we aren’t built to take “easier” points and the “Dr. Tottenham” jibe is true?

Somehow both of these resonate. It’s incredible. It gives “too insecure to be diabolical, but plenty unstable to be dangerous.”

This is the thing I am stuck on.

“The person who is always going to the post office hasn’t heard from himself in a long time.” -H. D. Thoreau

If this platform is going to avoid going the way of the other place(s), folks are going to have to resist building walls between themselves and complete strangers on false or over simplified binaries.

The good vibes will vanish pretty quick if the place gets divided in half over and over.

I agree. Give them no oxygen. Reasoned arguments are one thing. Rage farming for engagement is something else.

Sports BlueSky! Quote Post with your favorite teams

MLB: Brewers
College: Wisconsin Badgers; UW-Whitewater
NBA: Bucks
EPL: Tottenham
MLS: Minnesota United

So…another platform.

I fear that every time I flee a platform for another, I bring the trouble with me.

It is likely not my fault that discourse is dead, but I aim not to beat a dead horse.